Abstract: Road transportation is one of the most preferred modes for passenger and freight movement. It possesses certain advantages compared to other modes of transportation such as easy availability, door to door services, possibility for motorised and non-motorised transportation etc. Due to these advantages, there is a high dependence on this particular mode for both passenger and freight transportation. This mode creates serious ill effects such as air pollution, noise pollution, congestion and road accidents. Of all these problems, road accidents have become the most threatening. This problem is not confined within the boundaries of a particular state or nation but is a problem world-wide. This decade (2011 to 2020) is marked as the Decade of Action For Road Safety by the United Nations with the objective of achieving zero accidents rate by 2020. In line with this, India has also set the objective of zero accidents rate by 2020. Will Kerala, which contributes heavily to the national road accident figures, be able to achieve the same is a serious question that needs an answer. It is in this context that this paper tries to assess the road accidents problem in Kerala.
Keywords: Road accidents, Kerala roads, Kerala accidents.
Title: Road Accidents in Kerala: An Assessment
Author: Pradeesh Kumar S.
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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